NUPE POT SUPPORT 12, Nigeria

This Nupe pot support has been vetted as authentic, with signs of age and use.

These tall, elegant flaring forms are supports, buried halfway in the
ground to provide a stable base for a stack of the rounder Nupe pots. Whole
walls of terracotta pots often lined the inside of Nupe houses. Most of
these pieces show evidence of being buried, sometimes with deterioration
or encrustation, most often with the exposed top portion darkened with smoke
from cooking and fires kept in the home.